open source · MIT · self-hosted
Claude Chat and Claude Code come from the same company, and your chat still can't ask Code to do anything. Kiro Remote is the group chat they never had: a control plane in your own AWS account that lets any chat app hand real coding work to a Kiro Web agent.
16 MCP tools · passkey sign-in · deploy once, chat forever
Fix the flaky test in acme/api and open a PR.
I'd love to! I can't reach Claude Code from here, though. You could open a terminal, install it, cd into the repo and paste this prompt…
You are literally made by the same company.
We… don't really talk about that.
Done. A Kiro agent is on it. I'll tell you when the PR is up.
A short family history
Talks to everyone. Writes sonnets about your sourdough. Can't open a terminal.
Lives in a terminal. Only speaks to people who know what cd means.
Chat: “Could you pass the repo?” Code: “Please run me from a shell.” Silence. Someone checks their phone.
It brought a tin-can telephone. The ghost is Kiro. The string is MCP. The table is your AWS account.
How it works
One CDK stack in your own AWS account: API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3 and Cognito. Bring your Kiro API key.
Read the guide →Sign-up is invite-only and you sign in with a passkey. Strangers can't wander in and borrow your agent.
Read the guide →Point any MCP client at <host>/mcp and choose “Register automatically”. Or run kiro-remote mcp locally.
Read the guide →The 16 tools
Same tools over REST and MCP. A few are polite no-ops on cloud sessions — like most family promises. Details.
kiro_capabilities“So… what do you do now?”
Capabilities, kiro-cli version, your active session count.
kiro_list_models“Who are you seeing these days?”
Model ids the agent advertises.
kiro_launch_session“I need a favor.”
Launch a session on one or more repos with an initial prompt.
kiro_list_sessions“What have you been up to?”
Your sessions, newest first, with filters.
kiro_adopt_session“Mind if I take over?”
Adopt an existing Kiro cloud session.
kiro_get_session“How's that one going?”
Fetch one session you own.
kiro_send_prompt“Oh, and one more thing…”
Send a follow-up prompt.
kiro_wait_for_events“I'll wait. I'm great at waiting.”
Long-poll the session's event log.
kiro_get_transcript“Just give me the summary.”
The agent's final answer for each turn.
kiro_list_permissions“Need anything from me?”
List permission requests.
kiro_answer_permission“Yes, you may.”
Answer a pending permission request.
kiro_set_config“Maybe try a different mood?”
Change a session's model, effort or mode.
kiro_link_pull_request“Call me if the PR gets comments.”
Link a PR so GitHub activity wakes the session.
kiro_unlink_pull_request“Actually, don't call.”
Remove a PR link.
kiro_cancel_turn“Stop. Please stop talking.”
Cancel the active turn.
kiro_delete_session“We never speak of this again.”
Delete a session and its cloud sandbox.
Optional · GitHub wake
When the pull request the agent opened gets activity, a read-only GitHub App wakes the session with a new turn. More than can be said for some siblings.
Set up GitHub wake →Awkward questions
Press kit
Ready-made posts, taglines and a share card. Spread the word before the siblings make up on their own.
Short post
Claude Chat can't command Claude Code. Same company. Same last name. No group chat. So I built the group chat: kiro-remote, a self-hosted MCP server that lets your chat launch and steer real coding agents. https://github.com/nikovirtala/kiro-remote
Longer post
A small observation that turned into a weekend project (and then several more weekends): Claude Chat and Claude Code are made by the same company, yet my chat can't ask Code to do anything. I kept copy-pasting prompts between two tabs like a parent passing notes between siblings who won't talk. Kiro Remote fixes that for my own setup. It's a self-hosted control plane I deploy once into my AWS account. Any MCP client (Claude included, ironically) connects to it over OAuth 2.1 and gets 16 tools to launch a Kiro Web coding session on a repo, send follow-ups, wait for progress and read back the result. It can even wake the agent when its pull request gets a review comment or a failing check. Open source, MIT: https://github.com/nikovirtala/kiro-remote
Show HN title
Show HN: Kiro Remote – let your chat client drive a hosted coding agent over MCP
Community post
TIL Claude Chat can't hand work to Claude Code even though they come from the same company, so I built a bridge. kiro-remote is a self-hosted AWS control plane (CDK, Lambda, Cognito, passkeys) that exposes 16 MCP tools. From a chat you can launch a repo-scoped Kiro Web agent session, send prompts, long-poll events and read the transcript. Optional GitHub wake re-pings the agent when its PR gets activity. Repo + docs: https://github.com/nikovirtala/kiro-remote — feedback welcome.
Deploy once into your AWS account. Then hand off coding work without leaving the conversation.
nikovirtala/kiro-remote